Who is Donovan Jones?
Singer, writer, producer, quiet commentator, cerebral activist- with the emphasis most definitely falling on the cerebral side of things.
I’ve spent many years working my way along the journey of personal creativity.
This site is a manifestation of some of those discoveries and outputs for anyone to explore.
Listen to music, watch performances or sample some of my written creative output.
There is an open invitation for you to critique, agree or disagree, or even disapprove – the choice is yours. Feedback and comments are most definitely welcome.
Latest music
Here’s the first of the clips from last month’s Album Preview Party – Looking for a Way Out
What do you get when you are randomly teamed up with a couple of filmmakers and given 2 weeks to make a music video? No it’s not the set up to a joke.
This June I entered the 2024 2 Weeks 2 Make It competition and got put together with Sasquatch Pictures (aka Dan Hole and Lauren Holberry).
What appears below is the result of our collective efforts.
Special thanks to the team of fabulous extras who gave up their time to appear in front of the camera, especially Dan and Callum who spent 2 hot days in Tuxes!
Behind the scenes
When you have 7 days to storyboard, shoot and edit a music video for a charity event, this clip for “Party for One” is what you get. How many of you are still doing “Pilates on Zoom”?
Latest writing
Every once in a while something comes along and hits us out of the blue. It could be the sudden death of a friend or loved one, losing a job, the threat of redundancy, or the breakup of a relationship. These events are difficult to navigate, even when they are visible in the distance and […]
The (Almost) Daily Donovan has reached its first milestone; a complete month’s worth of posts. It has managed to sustain the ‘Daily’ title (albeit not without some very late night activity), and has given me plenty to think about as I’ve gone along. Being a ‘keen on the numbers’ kinda guy I thought I’d pluck […]
I need to run today. More explicitly I need to run 10 miles, a distance I haven’t covered in over 6 months. It’s a little daunting but I’ve a made a plan (shocker!). The first part of the plan was deciding on the route. That may seem obvious, but these days thanks to activity trackers, […]
It can take a lifetime to gain a real appreciation of our place in this world. I think of it as a continual voyage towards enlightenment with every new experience. However the older I get the more I see instances where we are failing to provide the next generation with the tools they need to […]
I hate noise. I know… hate is a strong word and I don’t use it lightly, but I really do hate noise. Unnecessary noise – nails tapping on keyboards, blind cords dangling in the breeze of an open window. Someone eating or chewing gum with an open mouth, cuff links sliding back and forth across […]
I’m looking for a good cause, but not just any good cause, the one that will make the most difference based on values that I think matter. My approach to charity has been changing over the last few years. Previously I’ve raised money through sponsored physical challenges but as I posted on LinkedIn at the […]